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[–] frankpsy@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This post is misleading. This scenario will only happen after all the ice is melted in Antarctica causing a >200ft sea level rise, which would take at least a couple millenia of extreme global warming to happen. There will be beachfront property slipping into the sea by 2075 with a lot of ecological and economic consequences involved, the NOAA has given us a neat little tool for visualizing what's to come. https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 19 hours ago

Archive that, it’s gonna vanish soon.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Don't forget all the extreme weather eroding away the peninsula. I'm less worried about sea level rise over the next 50 years than I am of a 20' storm surge happening over the course of a few hours.

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you for the dose of reality. Of course it would be nice if Florida sank into the sea. But let's try to stick to reality.

[–] Balrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Miami Heat will have to change their name to Miami Moist.

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[–] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looking at the bright side, there will be lots of newly formed artificial reefs available for the remaining fish. Hoping those fish can find a way to adapt to the warmer waters though.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Warmer waters isnt the real problem (well i mean it is) its ocean acidifcation where coral and other marine creatures cant form carbonated calcium shells anymore causing a complete collapose of marine ecosystems.

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[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 21 points 1 day ago

Climate change isn't real, it's the democrat water machines they have in the ocean to punish red states, dummy.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Projections for when though?

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)
  1. Sorry I had to do a ninja edit: the original post I stole this from didn't have the text on the image, but was rather a retweet of text post with this image (e.g., nested post)
[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

your edit was so stealthy if befuddled even the formatter

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Right? I was wondering how I got a hanging indent. That could legit be useful

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I see, the meme makes a lot more sense now. I was like this isn’t a meme it’s just a map of the future of Florida lol.

That said this seems very extreme and exaggerated for 2075. Sea level rise is one of the slowest aspects of climate change. Generally the worst case is thought to be about 2 meters by 2100 which is significant but not enough to affect non-coastal areas.

[–] rxxrc@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For fun I did a quick check and based on GEBCO elevation data this looks like about 20m sea rise (I'm guessing exactly -- I assume whoever made the image picked a round number).

Hacked-together graphic showing Florida with sea level rise causing approximately the same coastline as the OP.

I could have posted what 2m looks like but at this scale it just looks like current Florida.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

20m is if I remember correctly about what the melting of the greenland glacier will cause, which is pretty much locked in already. It will not be 2075 for sure, but probably this millenium.

[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I grew up a little south of Myakka. A meter rise still puts most of the area under some water. Half a meter put my childhood home in a shallow moat, since it was raised a bit from surroundings.

Maybe you're right, this won't be a full time map. But it definitely will be seasonal and difficult to live in

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Oh to be clear 2 meters will absolutely devastate some areas. But it won’t look like entire counties inundated as we see in this map.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

2075

And likely much earlier.

Due to the nature of science and how any predictions and projections it makes needs to be couched in exceedingly conservative tones, it has become a running gag in climate science that everything will happen “much sooner than expected”. Because invariably, it does. Sometime hundreds of years sooner than expected.

Hell, it was first thought that the AMOC wouldn’t collapse for centuries, and now more accurate projections put it as being sometime between 2025 and 2085, with a “most likely due date” of some time in the early 2050s. And this is still an exceedingly conservative estimate. Who wants to bet that it’ll happen much sooner than even that?

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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Damn democrats and their sea machine!

Hurricane machines in 2024 and now this!?

/S

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days ago

And this is how we can turn Florida blue.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This map fails to depict unfathomably massive amount of seaweed that the ocean is going to push in. The ocean doesn't stop pushing in, ever. The shit will be 100 feet high.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that will be a fun new tourist attraction

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was recently in the Yucatán and their tourist season is basically driven by seaweed these days because it grows so much in the warmer temps. In summer the beaches are covered in rotten seaweed and no one wants to travel there. I imagine Florida will start to experience this as well.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's already happening. I'll never go back to Florida.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ocean: "your land, my choice"

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd much prefer the Floridians stay in Florida. We need to stop climate change before the Floridians move in next door.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Party in the city where the heat is on all night, on the beach 'til the break of dawn

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[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Under the sea!

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[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Please tell me all the trump real estate is under water

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Along the bottom right you'll see West P[alm] Beach. That's where Mar-a-lago is.

Now by 2075 Trump will be dead, as will likely all of his children except the youngest ones like Baron who will be roughly Trump's current age.

This is also why many "current generation" folks don't care about climate change. They will not be alive to see it, since people just don't live that long.

Basically none of those you hope will suffer the consequences of their actions will.

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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Financially? Always has been.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

[Still gurgled from underwater, even while surrounded by the floating water bloated corpses of their neighbors, who weren't able to get homeowner's insurance for the prior 20 years] "let's go Brandon!"*

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Pfff. Have liberals never heard of red tide?

[–] andshit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Good, fuck Florida!

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago

Cape Coral will certainly be living up to its name.

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Orlando not under water. Clearly God hates humanity.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mourn the loss the Key West, and... Not much else, geographically speaking.

RIP Cape Canaveral

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Ben is a dumb dumb lol

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

Free Willy the lazy version

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

to be fair it’ll be more like a greenish brown.

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